There is nothing wrong with living a simple country life.

I'm from a village and I love village life . The villages are same. Same philosophy of life everywhere

Survives, everyone survives somehow everywhere in the world. This is beautiful.

I thought we were as poor as heck in the Philippines but watching this video people in Siberia has the most harsh weather but they continue to keep working, gathering berries in the woods. God Bless Siberia.

Survive? They look a lot healthier than all the homeless in the rich Western cities.

Stress free no mortgage to pay no gmo foods just pure living wth nature---paradise😀

Nice to see so many positive comments about this lovely way of life.

This place looks beautiful, I would genuinely live here a calm peaceful village

"survive" lol more like thriving. They had barns filled with food. I love the resiliance of the russians.

What a great way of living. God bless.

God bless this beautiful people ✌️🌎👍🏼🙏☮️☮️

WTF, these people usually have animals and farms...they are almost self-sufficient...why are you telling them they NEED outside help?

in reality, life is not as bad as what this video is trying to depict. i’m born and raised in a small village. these are self-sustaining villages. people have their own small farms and livestocks which can sustain them the whole year. they have no option because they need no option. this is the life they want. there’s no job hiring.. everybody is a boss here. if life for you is gucci, LV, prada, iphone , then this place is definitely not for you. to portray these people as what is being depicted here is just too ridiculous. 24 dollars might seemed too small but use your head, these people have to pay no house mortgages, no macy’s card, no AT&T bills to pay. lastly, id be better picking berries than sitting behind a desk answering calls for your boss.. or if i may, kissing your boss ass hoping for a promotion or a raise.

Mother Earth provide for us, we need to respect it and treat her well,

This looks like a good way to live clear healthy living and beautiful place to be. Get me there

I respect people that live there. They struggle for everything. Probably no Doctor, or Dentist there. We take so much for granted. May God bless everyone who lives in that region. -Stephen, Ohio

What a strange title and outlook on their independence! I've just recently viewed a similar report about a gatherer in Bosnia who feeds a family of six by gathering berries, crystals and frogs. Also, collecting and selling wild plants for ornaments to flower shops. The young man appeared so proud of the way he has lived, probably for generations! He looked slim, strong, very fit and with such a positive outlook on life. There was no dreary landscape in the commentary to his documentary. Pure joy of freedom and independence! - Oh, I'll look it up. Here, starting with the upbeat music: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/joN2o49poKmglqM.html

An honest living from the land. God bless them!

This reminds me of when I used to live in Alaska, very beautiful!

I’ve lived on a dirt poor reservation in Az, USA. I wanna live amongst them. I could survive. Jus needa learn the language!

This is Siberian summer, and the folks are pretty bundled up. Imagine what winter is like.

$700 should be good living. And although they’re away from the cities I think it’s happier life

These are true survivors - they look happy, strong, healthy and their minds are clean. They are not slaves to big corporations, mortgages, social status pressure, fashion trends and other crap that suffocate our lives. True blessing to be able to live like that. A simple, honest, purposeful life.

To some living there looks dreary, others will be attracted to living close to nature and apart from modern urban complications

God bless these people

I wouldn’t mind a life like this in preference to the one I’ve got !

Wow. I was told stories of how life was for my great grandmother in the Russian Empire. She too harvested berries and mushrooms to survive. To think people still live like this! it's a humble life, I'm sure, and I could see some who would enjoy living in Siberia, but it mustn't be for the weak souls.

I can see why this couple has returned 3 times, this is a beautiful healthy way to live compared to the polluted, chemical high stress money hungry life in the cities. Media always puts this life style down with their words like "bleak wilderness, back straining work, muddy dirt road, slosh through soggy fields, scrape together a livelihood." That lifestyle is highly prized by some of us who finally see what the "good life" really is, and it's not all about money If media showed this life in a positive way, there would be more young interested, but that is not what the authorities want, they want FEMA cities full of us all.

That looks like a beautiful place to live

They report this as a downfall, but to me it looks like a great way to live and be free of bosses, while breathing in fresh air and getting exercise.

She is a strong brave woman ..I will be happy to stay in the states ..this lady is amazing God Bless her

It doesn't look bleak just cloudy and cold but surly eventually the sun does come out - it looks quite and peaceful and so many of us would love to walk around there and pick those berries if we could.

They are much happier and healthier than the living zombies in most of worlds cities ...

Those mushrooms look yummy. I wish for you that your economy was better. Thanks

God bless her. Such hard work. God bless the village and give them prosperity and joy

Respect from USA.

They have so many things to be thankful to God, a pristine forest to harvest some valuable resources not to mention fresh air. In the Philippines and most other places, most trees are cut, lands are owned by the rich, no more coastal fish and no jobs for millions of graduates from profitering schools. The garbage yard is the poor's last hope.

I love how the comment section is filled with either or misinformation about life in Russia (No nights during summer, too cold to grow potatoes or tomatoes, etc) or blatant victim-blaming. I mean it's such a luxury to earn $24 after hours of intense manual labour, only to spend most of it on medication and essential goods. Although the couple in the video chose to return to their original lifestyle, most of Russians simply don't have any options. 99% of the country consists of provinces with the same living conditions. Komsomolsk is a vivid portrait of Russia, a country largely stuck at the pre-industrial stage with a strict but incompetent government robbing even these "well-to-do" farmers of natural resources and funds. Complete geopolitical isolation, with every country taking a turn to throw shade at the country. In a couple of decades your dream homesteading lifestyle may as well go extinct along with the already dying or leaving inhabitants. This is not a post trying to bad-mouth my Country, I'm just pointing out the absurdity of some people's claims and the contrast between their idealistic expectations and the unfortunate reality.

What a beautiful life they have.

Wow , what a beautiful simple life..they seem like good, hard working people.

Id love to live that way collecting wild mushrooms and berries and selling them the freedom of the countyside in a small village rather than the gring of a smokey grey concrete jungle

I'm an American and my landlord for 5 years was Ukrainian. He used to tell me "in Soviet Russia grocery store is woods." He said when he immigrated to the u.s. the first time he was in a grocery store he spent 3 hours walking around, to the point where they were following him. He never saw so much food in his life and was confused by the fruit called kiwi? He asked the cashier, "vat is?"

Thank you for sharing this.

Self gathered food is always appreciated. Fishing, hunting, outdoors, winter, fall, summer, sometimes hard, sometimes happy

I can image the gatherings/parties, good food, and love and making being made after such hands on organic survival. This is priceless

At least they are doing an honest living

Pakistan is best country to spend vacations. loving people, natural beauty, delicious Foods & peace. I've visited Pakistan in 2019 so cheap so nice country 🇵🇰

For all the people saying that they are better off. They are completely dependent on the forest. If theres is a flood or a hard winter that could be there whole income for the year gone. So it's a hard way of life

I love such beautiful views of rural life and nature.

The indigenous Asian nomads also hunt deer for a living

these people know the meaning of hard work....couple of salted down elk and pigs and they are set for the season....thumbs up !!

Great. Difficult life. God Bless them

The most beautiful forest imaginable, and you describe it as dreary. Way to go.

bleak wilderness my arse, looks good to me. better than flipping carcinogenic burgers at macdonalds while you live in your car because you can't afford rent

I'd love to see a video of you hunting with it...The accuracy was fantastic!

Totally inspired...hard working people. I feel a bit sad that we work so hard to make a living. Here in costa rica, not much difference. Come see some of my rural life in costa rica. Cheers!!!

These people are as close to being truly free, as it gets. They should open a business to bed and board.

i want to live there its peaceful unlike the american streets where theres chaos and loud music with a lot of litter

what a nice pure life.

Is there a way to plant the berry bushes so they can harvest them in a more productive manner?

Got to make the best out of where you live. positive thinking and open mind is the key.

Cranberries are full of antioxidants (8 983 capacity), full of vitamin C too. Looks like a pretty decent way to make money. Good karma 💕

That looks absolutely comfy. I hope to move to Siberia one day.

save the trees .save life.Save the nature

A hardy and resolute people indeed, where are the cellphones and big screen TVs that we in the West cannot live without, I hope they have medical care in that remote area.

Bleak, not, is rich with fruits of the forest.

This is beautyful id buy a smoothie right now in support

I remember - reports from "Radio Free Europe" Tatiana - a name endearing to my heart - a friend I had also had this name. Tatiana Pognaski was a dear friend - I found her - expired from this life one morning - it was the most tragic of experiences and I miss her beyond description.

Those wild berries would run $30 USD per pound in the states

They all seem happy though.

i used to live here for 11 years met my wife in Canada, this is her home i raised a few Siberian Tigers out in the Birches as well 🌴 🐯

Its so beautiful

You make it seem like they are only eating berries, but of course they hunt and eat lots of meat. They are probably more healthy than most people in the cities. BS.

even in the wilderness and cold, nature has provided something for them to live life respectably,....

Nice honest working people like them

God will always provide for the humble, that is his glory, all his.

Pure organic, doesn’t get more natural than this

According to the sauce provided by youtube: "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States Government organization... " >Radio Europe >Funded by the U.S. gov. Ok I'm completely confused

I used to pick these berries and mushrooms when I (and my family) were World War 2 refugees in the Perm region (Chernushka) of the Ural Mountains. It must have been about 1941 and I was 8 or 9 years old. Both the berries and the mushrooms were delicious.

Good video. Thanks

Metro city life is jail created by bankers and government.people should adopt simple and village life. .

I don't know why I feel like it, but that American reporter talks like its a catastrophe living in Komcomol'sk, but I guess Americans are used to their lifestyle and I get it. This is honestly beautiful way to live, spending time in nature and make money of it, and 1485 rubles for hour? That's pretty cool actually, compared to our economic situation! But I guess kids only see Russians as pricks wearing track suits, drinking vodka and shouting "suka blyat" every 5 minutes. I am Czech, our economy is pretty fine for now and we love to collect mushrooms for example, because we like it, it's a well known tradition here. I don't see anything weird in the video and I love my Slavic brothers in the east. Привет всем друзьям из России!

I honestly wouldn't have a problem living in a place like that

Fascinating.

Those of u Americans that are saying that u want to move there and live there, first try Alaska. Its same thing (climate/village life) but with more jobs and opportunities. I lived in siberia and Alaska. I can tell u Alaska is so much better. Not kidding. Freedom, guns, fishing, hunting, cheap affordable transportation, cheap gas, jobs, good roads, organic labeled food in stores, ects... You get none of that in those siberian villages

that's a good live, why was that negatively portrayed?

It just goes to show how good we have it here in America.

Please shows us more of these !

take my 9-5 IT job with handsome salary...give me this

Return to nature, survive by living on the land before someone fence it off and claims it as their.

Lucky to have the option to live this way.

Looks great, good luck to all

Talking to one of my customer's. He spoke of a conversation with his young son, concerning civilization break down. Son asked, "how we'd get around if fuel stopped flowing?", Father's reply,, "back to walking like man has done for thousands of years"... Under U.N charter, they want us living in cities. Watched/controlled/disarmed more easily. Aussie government's lap bitches for Chinese government. We're getting it borh ends. 👋🇦🇺

God Bless Russia.

Wow! Nice ideas

Wow beautiful and happy life

Oh really? You think every siberian village is like this?

"100% Siberian Cranberry Preserves" in Whole Foods or other specialty gourmet food stores in New York and Los Angeles. Price: $$$$!! : )

I can actually “relate” to scraping a living. I have been unemployed for the last three years. To keep busy and in some semblance of tone, I visit some public lands where people do a lot of shooting. If the “competition” isn’t too fierce (a big problem for me lately 😄), I can gather a bucket of brass shells in a day and maybe make $100. The other resource has much less competition because it is rather hard and time-consuming to gather: BULLETS. It can take up to 120 total hours to gather a bucket of bullets, which can weigh more than five times that of a bucket of brass shells. However, if I just cash on the bullets at a scrap yard, I might get $30-$50. But if I use my five-gallon capacity MELTER (I have a video of that on my channel) and cast the lead into ingots, I can triple the scrap value of the lead. And as most of the bullet jackets I strain out are copper-bearing, I can get more money that way. It can be “back-breaking” work for the nominal $150, but it’s fairly steady. I must have gathered three TONS of bullets-all by hand-in the last two years. 😄

GOD bless her